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Remembering Our Past Members

5-5-5 Explanation

Long before telephones and radios, fire departments used the telegraph to communicate.  When the handle was pulled on the once-familiar red fire alarm boxes found on nearly every street corner of America, a special code was transmitted to every fire station.
When a firefighter died in the line of duty, the fire alarm office would tap out a special signal.  That signal was five measured dashes, then a pause, then five measured dashes, another pause…then five more dashes.

This became universally known as the Tolling of the Bell and was broadcast over all telegraph fire alarm circuits.

This signal was a sign of honor and respect for all firefighters who had made the ultimate sacrifice and has become a time-honored tradition.
Members who have answered their final call to service...

Town of Watertown
(Dates Uncertain)


Gilbert Blackmer

Howard Cronk

Joseph DeGuff

Ovila Dufrense

Norman Giddings

Allan Hewitt

J. Dudley Jones

Howard Lister

Clarence Lowe

Kenneth Luffman

Fred Matthews

Clifford Smith

Herbert Winter






Town of Watertown
(Dates Known)


Edward Marcellus
July 22, 1894 - February 5, 1970

Elmer Pearson
March 29, 1909 - September 28, 1971

Ross Wilson
September 3, 1909 - April 2, 1974

Ned Madill
September 15, 1915 - January 10, 1976

Leo Williams
December 29, 1910 - April 13, 1976

Hubert Hart
October 6, 1902 - December 4, 1979

Henry Cornell
May 30, 1908 - April 4, 1980

Henry Rule
March 15, 1923 - June 24, 1980

Paul Jones
February 14, 1925 - February 8, 1981

Richard Sutton
November 20, 1930 - September 27, 1981

Thomas Oberton
November 5, 1909 - April 25, 1983

Joseph Pearson
July 28, 1905 - September 22, 1984

Neal Edgar
October 17, 1938 - June 22, 1987

Howard Jeffers
April 25, 1911 - January 25, 1988

Carl Wilson
October 12, 1924 - January 5, 1989

Donald Palmer
May 25, 1925 - October 27, 1989

Bernard Clement
August 25, 1933 - February 10, 1990

Maxwell Bauder
June 18, 1915 - July 8, 1990

Walter Fish
May 1, 1927 - April 14, 1992

Edward Mac
December 18, 1918 - May 8, 1992

Dalton Gilmore
July 11, 1936 - September 7, 1992

John Stone
- July 1, 1993

Gordon Kenfield
September 16, 1919 - September 8, 1994

Kenneth Heath
August 17, 1936 - July 10, 1995

Ray Churchill
March 22, 1919 - November 30, 1995

George Lyng
April 10, 1919 - January 3, 1996

Edison Conway
November 5, 1905 - May 28, 1996

Herbert Smith
July 17, 1905 - October 3, 1997

Kenneth Thomas
April 9, 1928 - January 29, 1999

Vincent Denicola
June 12, 1944 - October 8, 2000

Donald Clement
August 3, 1935 - March 14, 2001

Ralph Oberton
November 6, 1935 - June 3, 2001

Earl Crandall
May 3, 1917 - October 25, 2001

Robert Hughes
December 18, 1940 - February 12, 2002

Robert David
June 5, 1930 - May 2, 2004

Donald Tremont
June 20, 1922 - May 3, 2004

Harold Mustizer
- Dec. 6, 2004

Francis J. Myers
January 20, 1928 - March 14, 2005

David Reed
May 6, 1936 - April 5, 2005

Robert “Donald” Spink
- 2005

James “Red” E. Howland
January 7, 1922 - July 13, 2005

Roland A. Hoppe
May 7, 1917 - December 10, 2005

Franklin H. Scales
December 1, 1918 - February 13, 2006

Clyde A. Kirk
March 7, 1918 - May 12, 2006

Wesley Alcombrack
August 15, 1922 - September 6, 2006

Neil O. Fralick
Oct. 15, 1920 - June 10, 2007

Stanley Aloan
November 6, 1917- July 13, 2007

Richard W. Hodge
May 27, 1938 - July 19, 2007

Kenneth T. Sutton
September 23, 1929 - October 13, 2007

Laura G. Howland
June 23, 1949 - November 16, 2008

Leonard J. Pitcher
January 4, 1926 - January 30, 2009

Sanford J. “Sandy” Hartman 
June 21, 1922 - May 15, 2009

Daniel Sullivan
January 13, 1917 - October 18, 2009

Edward L. Clark
November 24, 1915 - November 15, 2009

Randy J. Clement
August 21, 1959 - December 25, 2009

Clarence T. Waters
August 19, 1922 – April 1, 2010

Harvey D. Shippee
December 1, 1927 – April 21, 2010

George H. Carroll
April 10, 1952 - April 27, 2010

William G. "Bill" Mahon
October 21, 1927 - August 17, 2010

Robert "Bob" W. Barker
February 24, 1922 - December 7, 2010

Leonard S. Clement
December 6, 1937 - January 5, 2011

Roger E. Bull 
October 4, 1958 - January 18, 2012

Mark A. Shippee
September 29, 1959 - August 30, 2012

Terrance "Terry" J. Smith, Sr.
October 3, 1936 - October 5, 2012

Bernard "Gary" Clement
January 21, 1952 - April 27, 2013

John A. Fraser
December 23, 1953 -  April 4, 2014

Louis "Doc" Robert Fish 
June 14, 1931 - January 8, 2015

Jody E. Carroll
January 31, 1958 - September 22, 2015
​
Amos C. “Andy” Cambron
July 18, 1922 – March 2, 2016
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​Robert G. Clement
October 27, 1936 - March 25, 2016

Karl J. Malady, Jr.
August 17, 1927 – April 22, 2016
​
Richard Edwin Madill
December 25, 1942 - April 30, 2017
 

Richard J. Smith
October 22, 1931 - February 14, 2019

Ralph A. Green, Sr.
January 2, 1935 - March 11, 2019



Donald Charles "Charlie" Bolio
October 15, 1945 – May 24, 2019


Donald “Dinge” Tkacy
(Honorary Member)
April 7, 1922 - March 18, 2020


John F. Maguire Jr.
June 6, 1957 – October 29, 2020


​
DeWitt W. Nichols
​
November 16, 1946 – April 7, 2021

​


Town of Watertown Fire District Office

Station 1 (Watertown Center)
22825 County Route 67
Watertown, NY 13601
(315) 788-9101

Email: ​DistClerk@twfdistrict.com

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